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I've used Mary, Elizabeth and Anne as mns for my daughters - all family names, going back further than 1944 by decades.
I really like Margaret and Jean, and I don't mind Janet, Jennifer and Barbara, though Jenny bores me senseless.
Maureen and Pauline are just plain awful.
Pamela is pretty but Pam isn't; same problem with Patricia and Pat.
Interesting list - thanks!
I really like Margaret and Jean, and I don't mind Janet, Jennifer and Barbara, though Jenny bores me senseless.
Maureen and Pauline are just plain awful.
Pamela is pretty but Pam isn't; same problem with Patricia and Pat.
Interesting list - thanks!
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I've been told, but can't prove, that Pamela was originally pronounced pa-MEE-la, which doesn't please me, though Pamela nn Mella certainly does.
I've never met a Tricia, but Trish people abound where I live, in fact once I knew two separate and unrelated Patricia Samelastname women a generation apart, one known as Trish and the other as Tish. I thought at the time and still do that it sounds like a stifled sneeze. Patsy is better than Patty, I think, though that doesn't make it good!
I've never met a Tricia, but Trish people abound where I live, in fact once I knew two separate and unrelated Patricia Samelastname women a generation apart, one known as Trish and the other as Tish. I thought at the time and still do that it sounds like a stifled sneeze. Patsy is better than Patty, I think, though that doesn't make it good!
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